Buksa language

Buksa
Bhoksa
Native to	India
Region	Uttarakhand
Ethnicity	Bhoksa people
Native speakers	59,000 (2011 census)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Bihari Tharu Rana Tharu Buksa
Writing system	Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tkb
Glottolog	buks1238

Buksa, also known as Buksari and Bhoksa, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Buksa people in parts of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, India.

Within Uttarakhand, most speakers of Buksa are found in several dozen villages in Udham Singh Nagar district in the south-east of state, mainly in the development blocks of Bajpur and Gadarpur. There are also speakers in a number of villages in the Ramnagar area of Nainital district, as well as in the urban centres of Dehradun, Haridwar and Pauri.[2]

Buksa has no written literature, but there is an oral tradition of folktales and folk songs.[3]

References

1. Buksa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Pant 2015, p. 3.
3. Pant 2015, pp. 3, 8.

Bibliography

• Pant, Jagdish (2015). "Buksa/Buksari". In Devy, Ganesh; Bhatt, Uma; Pathak, Shekhar (eds.). The Languages of Uttarakhand. People's Linguistic Survey of India. Vol. 30. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. pp. 3–26. ISBN 9788125056263.